Ever wanted to make contact with a volcano?
Well the month of May, just could be your chance. Between May 2 and May 30, a team from FOTA DX Club Belgium will activate 3 Volcanoes On The Air. Stromboli (Eolian island), the Etna on Sicily and the Vesuvius in Italy (Naples). They will be active in SSB with 35 Watt with an FTDX10 and Ecoflow Power Station and using an ATAS 25 portable vertical antenna. They plan also to be active QRP with an Icom IC-705 and same ATAS 25 Antenna. A special triple gatefold QSL card will be made available to those stations that made contact with all three locations. All QSO’s will be logged under: ID9/OP8L (Stromboli), IT9/OP8L (Etna) and I8/OP8L (Vesuvius). Special QRZ pages for 3 callsigns will be activated in the next few days. They would love some DX spotting from those who make contact.
SOS Radio Week is coming up May 20th and 21st
SOS Radio Week starts at 00:00 (local) on the 1st May and end at 23:59 (local) on 31st May every year. Its objective is to raise awareness of the invaluable, and amazingly selfless, work performed by the volunteers of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), independent lifeboats and the National Coastwatch Institution (NCI).
For more info visit https://www.sosradioweek.org.uk/ and this QRZ Post.
Kentucky Phone Net and Kentucky Emergency Net
The KY Phone Net meets every morning, 7 days a week at 8:30 a.m. EST and 7:30 a.m. CST on the frequency of 3.810 and every evening 7 days a week at 7:00 pm EST and 6:00 pm CST on the frequency of 3.816. These nets meet for the purpose of comradery and fellowship among amateur radio operators. All amateurs licensed to operate on these frequencies are invited to check in these nets. You do not have to be a resident of Kentucky to participate. For more info visit their Facebook page.
The Kentucky Emergency Net meets every Monday evening at 7:30 p.m. EST and 6:30 p.m CST on the frequency 3.9725. The purpose of this net is the coordination of the amateur radio emergency service program within the Kentucky section and the promotion of continuing education to provide amateur radio emergency communications support to the KY Division of Emergency Management, local emergency management and other served agencies section-wide.
All amateurs interested in becoming better prepared to provide these public
service communications are invited to participate in this net. For more info visit their Facebook page.
